favorite web browser and email software for lowend pc's
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favorite web browser and email software for lowend pc's
anyone know of a good web browser and email client for slower pc's
i know dillo is fast, but i'd like something a little more useable
also, is evolution ( an outlook like e-mail client) good for a slower computer 233mhz / 80 megs ram? i know it looks good but it just seems like it will run slow
slackware comes with a lot of email programs, mutt for example, anyone have a favorite?
spruce is a nice and slim email client. my favourite, definetely.
browser i donīt know - iīm using mozilla without mail and news options. on my box itīs pretty fast- much faster at least than former versions
cheers, jens
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Low end GUI e-mail reader could be sylpheed, its fast and functional, plus you can tell it to store mail in /var/mail/user so other readers such as mutt can find it easily.
For browser lynx and links are good, but text only. Also i heard about skipstone, heard its good.
HTH
-NSKL
spruce looks nice. i dont want to do command line browsing, i checked out lynks and links and they're not for me, i guess i'll keep with dillo. i would like to know if theres any middle ground, a program that does more than dillo but is not as resource intensive as mozilla.
Well I could suggest either fetchamil and pine, or sylpheed. For a fast browser you could use either links or opera. Well opera might not load as fast but it works very fast Good Luck!
Mozilla as usual browser
I'm using mozilla 1.2.1 standard included with RH9.0.
Very nice thanks to its smoothed fonts (thanks xft)
Opera for more critical missions
When it comes to websites fully respecting W3C that Mozilla sometimes can't display correctly, this is the right choice. Appealing themes as well.
Konqueror for flexible ID
When wanting to go on my bank website (you know, for web banking) Konqueror tries to play its role not badly as it offers the possibility to make him being identified as an Explorer 5.5 on Win2000 for instance.
VERY useful when web banking with a website only developped for M$ stuff.
Though, since some weeks none of them is granting me access to my web banking anymore ... even when identified as Explorer 5.5 on Win2000 or Explorer 6.0 on WinXP and so on.
I assume thanks to the Javascript debugger console that there lies the problem. There's somewhere a Javascript error that blocks me to execute some banking orders.
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